seed data in Node.js

create a folder data, add index.js, seedData.js

index.vash

@html.extend('layout', function(model){
@html.block('body', function(model){
<h1>@model.title </h1>

@if (model.error){
 <p class="text-error">Error occurred: @model.error</p>
}

@model.categories.forEach(function (category){
 <div>
   <span>@(category.notes ? category.notes.length:0) -</span>
   <a href="#">@category.name</a>
 </div>
})

})
})

index.js
(function (data) {
    var seedData = require("./seedData");
 
    data.getNoteCategories = function (next) {
        next(null, seedData.initialNotes);
    };
})(module.exports);

seedData.js

(function (seedData) {

    seedData.initialNotes = [{

            name: "History",

            notes: [{

                    note: "Testing history",

                    author: "Shawn Wildermuth",

                    color: "yellow"

                }, {

                    note: "I like history",

                    author: "Shawn Wildermuth",

                    color: "blue"

                }, {

                    note: "I hate war.",

                    author: "Shawn Wildermuth",

                    color: "green"

                }, {

                    note: "History is an interesting subject with many different topics. I am always concerned about topics that are too long.",

                    author: "Shawn Wildermuth",

                    color: "green"

                }, {

                    note: "Presidents are cool.",

                    author: "Shawn Wildermuth",

                    color: "orange"

                }]

        }, {

            name: "People",

            notes: [{

                    note: "Jefferson was a President",

                    author: "Shawn Wildermuth",

                    color: "yellow"

                }, {

                    note: "John Wayne was an actor",

                    author: "Shawn Wildermuth",

                    color: "blue"

                }, {

                    note: "Reagan was a President and an actor.",

                    author: "Shawn Wildermuth",

                    color: "green"

                }]

        }];

})(module.exports);